 What's the word y'all welcome back to another playoff recap man. I'm here and I'm excited to be here I must admit though confession time the best game of the day, which was pelicans versus suns I missed the entire second half of it. I watched the first half So devil booker dropped the 31 a master class of just bucket getting you know I'm saying kids should be watching and try to try to uh to mimic their game of that And then I had to go upstairs to do fatherly duties And by the time I came back down there was only four minutes left for the fourth court And it was a close game and they're showing close-ups of devon booker on the bench saying will not return So I still ain't even seen the play where he heard his hamstring Or I don't really know what the pelicans did to to take that lead But I do look at the boxcourt see brandon ingham had a lot to do I can tell you that but I can tell you that much when I was watching the second half That brandon ingham had a lot to do with the oh actually like I said, I watched the last couple minutes So I did see brandon ingham get a couple big big buckets So my apologies to the pelicans fans man I can't really talk to to your success today But I got to say that i'm hoping the devon booker hamstring injury is nothing That's gonna hold him out one game two games the entire series the entire playoffs I am praying for nothing but good health for every single team and every single player I can't speak for everybody though because I went up to twitter right and I asked twitter like what happened because again I missed the second half. I didn't know what happened what happened and people showing me screenshots of people on twitter And you know what there's always going to be bad eggs. This doesn't Um This doesn't account for the entirety of the pelicans fan base or even a fan base across all the other 29 teams not named the sons and it was a tweet for I think it was wolder shams And they were saying devon booker will not return and their applies under there is w So happy season end of injury soon. It's just a bunch of bull We're better than that on this channel. So I don't know. I'm preaching to people that they won't do something like that But yeah, we just we gotta be better, bro. You're wishing injuries on you real people dog over a basketball You want to see somebody get injured over it is little this little orange But you we gotta be better Um, but I will go back and watch that because I'm very curious to see what adjustments were made um or How much the devon well, of course the devon booker injury impacted at least A decent amount, but the pelicans still had to capitalize on that So I gotta go see how they did it. So my apologies pelicans fans But I will talk about the miffus win Um to tie up the series and I will talk about miami's dominance I know I ended up in a 10 point game And I'm considering it dominance because it was dominance for most of the way But before we do that, let me talk to you about a sponsor Which is prize picks hit that link in the description and download the prize picks app and use code Kenny because you're matching all deposits up to a hundred dollars I've been slacking y'all prize picks have been a presenting sponsor for the entirety of the season And I didn't tell you about it right before the season We have thousands of people that have already used code Kenny So you do not want to miss out on the fund All you need to do is pick between two to five of your favorite or least favorite players And you decide if you want to go over and under on any individual NBA statistic Maybe you're expecting that kevin aranjas and tatum carry over and jaylon bruh all have really good games You can go over on all of them and then you have a couple different payout options Flex play means that one person in your lineup cannot hit what you want them to hit And you can still get in the green or power play means that a all four of my things hit And that is a 10x payout It's a it's a 10x payout. Like I said, there's already thousands of people that have used code Kenny So do not miss out on the fund. We only got a limited amount of basketball left man So go ahead play prize picks use code Kenny so they can match your deposit up to a hundred dollars All right, let's talk about miami's dominance because that's what I am calling it the ellenahawks They didn't stand a chance. They did have a little point where like eight minutes left in the game when they went on a little run To make it a little bit interesting and I was like no way miami's about the fun But it's but they did not because this guy named jimmy g buckets jimmy g butler really came to play He had like seven straight points to ice the game including the steel A game where he ended up a 45 points five rebounds five assists Like I said clutch steel and zero turnovers zero turnovers in a post game interview They were asking him about man. Why today did you decide that you want to drive 45? And he said coach uh chris quinn I think that's what it is chris quinn was like go be go take all the shots you won and then he did that It's career high in the playoffs Which I don't know why I thought that in that playoff run in the bubble that he had like a 50 point game But I don't think he had a 50. I think he had like a A 38 10 and 10 or something crazy like that and that's how you get the picture of him leaning over dead tire Big win for them. I'm going up 2o going back to ellenah The thing is ellenah is really good at home. So I don't know how much is that going to translate in the playoffs Especially because they have done a damn good job on tray young through the first two games of the series Today he shot tray young shot 50 percent on field. So that's not too bad But he shot 2 for 10 from 3 But the thing i'm really worried about is that 10 turnover mark and well a lot of those turnovers were were forced And a lot were unforced But I want I want to show you some of these turnovers because the Miami heat make simple passes or passes that you make 82 games of the regular season Basically impossible passes because they don't stop playing on the defensive side of the ball Also, um in this game Duncan robberson played six minutes Yesterday two days ago three days ago He had one of the greatest shooting Three pointers made in a playoff game in this game. It was like, you know what we're gonna grab a game vencent It's crazy how they get people to like to like lock in or um and just accept whatever role they're given Like victor ladipo is no longer in the rotation and they were talking about that But then they were saying that a it could happen any day And as they were saying that gay vencent and kayla marin came off the bench So spo has a a very good rotation But he switches it up to keep you on your heels and Duncan They might have game planned heavily for Duncan bro gave them eight threes two nights ago And now he don't even get no p.t. Uh, but this was a jimmy game But let me show you some of these turnovers yesterday I showed some some footage and the NBA didn't say nothing So I'm gonna start just showing footage until they they strike me down. This is more early in the game 1515 first quarter It's not the too crazy here But just showing the fact that this Miami heat team does not quit on even the simplest of passes Which is a sideline at a ball at a bounds pass and it goes for a bucket for max truce And just little things like that can go a very very very long way when it comes to getting the crowd involved And your teammates involved and just having everybody buy in on the defensive side of the ball This one's just all around great defense from the Miami heat You see tre young getting a little pin down action. I don't I'm not very good with terminology at these plays So excuse me if I miss I miss speak a little bit But he's coming off the screen right here a double screen actually from I think that that might be herder Or maybe about nine of it. Just blurry. I can't really see um, but here he is coming up, right? Right, they get they switch on this little handoff here And now it's max truce and max truce does a hell of a job standing in front of one of the shiftiest slash But best bucket getters in the entire NBA and look at pj. Tucker's shows and tre young's like oh snap I got god in the corner. He got a slick back. Hell. He got his hands up Let me give him that pass pj gets back enough to deflect the pass and that's a turnover And almost any other situation tre young is able to make this pass multiple ways But pj. Tucker being a great defender that he is Basically eliminates the drive to the basket and he eliminated the extra pass crazy great difference from pj Some of them were just lazy bringing the ball up the court a little slip They just play they play harder than that You're not going to throw a pass up there and not expect them to at least contest it And I think this was the biggest one of the day As you can see the elana hawks went on a nice little run They gathered within single digits five minutes left and bogdanovic has a missed a shot and like a quarter, bro He was on fire in the fourth quarter. This is the play that ends up happening, right? We got gay venton up top on tre young they running some action for a backdoor cup for john collis lowkey It might have been there, but then again he was being trailed by bam So maybe it wasn't try to get the pass to bogdanovic That's gay venton That's jimmy butler for getting his hand in the cookie job and this is part of jimmy butler's Seven points to clear this game and it's just a bad turnover at a terrible part of the game and just like that I mean they they put it up back nine and then it went back to double digits and the game was over So again a lot of love for them Um and having jimmy butler have a game like this probably puts a lot of people on notice Of course, you don't expect him to be dropping uh 45 points tonight But if it is just chris quinn telling him to go get buckets and he can just do that Uh now some of the offensive struggles if you want to call him that for the mind He kind of go away if we can get jimmy butler to just be aggressive And we've seen jimmy butler whether it be in the bubble run or or some of the other runs in his career When he's with the bulls be a guy that's hella aggressive and can draw fouls when he needed to and today he drew 12 free throws So shout out to jimmy butler in the miami heat I got to go into atlanta and at least steal one of these things for sure next one Of the minnesota timbles versus the grids a lot of people are upset that this game was not on national tv because in game Number one. It was such a high um high energy. We have uh jama rand We got anthony edwards car anthony. We just got a lot of fun super fun enjoyable players to watch We got some trash talkers We got everything and in game number one the minnesota timble surprised the world and pulls off this upset M and m mf is and then jama rand goes to twitter You know, he's not throwing those shots obviously jama rand's not a guy that's going to throw shots But he's like putting himself holding himself accountable. He's tweeting um the michael jordan meme where he got the baseball bat in a Sigan is mouth where he's saying uh a real man talk trash when he up and not i mean Real man talk trash when the scores even and not when he's up or something like that You know the michael jordan quote from the last dance fire quote fire moment in the last dance He tweeted that and he tweeted a lot of different stuff throughout the last couple days and i'm like bro Y'all better do y'all thing because all these sweeps gonna come back to bite you It didn't come back to bite him because they they did what they needed to do And there was a couple different things that i think um was the reasons why we got to this point First of all they tipped off with steven adams and they figured out very very early on steven adams ain't the guy We talked about that after game number one Now i told y'all that steven adams should be getting bt in this series specifically as good of a player steven adams is and a great teammate because the guy that took his minutes today steven adams showed him so much love in a post game interview because steven adams is just a team player and just a guy A great guy um, but we found out very early that this is not a good series for him He got foul trouble very early on and who came off the bench zavier tilman this boy Xavier tilman has the most oh, what is the word i'm looking for he's just resilient That's the he's just resilient y'all. I have a very vivid memory of of the um The i guess it can't be that bit because i can't even remember the game It was the game against the warriors in the playing for the hc If you remember last year the hc. Memphis grizzlies warriors game um This man zavier tilman did not play many minutes leading up into that game But in the game win or go home game zavier tilman came in and i don't know maybe had double-digit points I don't remember exact stat line, but i remember him black playing a huge impact in a game that was must win And bro ain't really been in the rotation for some time and in this game I would consider this a must win You don't want to go down o2 while you were the home team a must win game bro came out Okay, steven out out of the rotation I'll give you 20 great minutes and he did that for offensive rebounds And he was all over the place shout out to him jamran did his thing He was as posed it can be whether it was his playmaking Whether it was his shock ratio to step back three got to the basket at will But the the thing that was more surprising to me he locked in defensively and if jamran's locking in defensively There's a lot of players in the league that just purely based off the athleticism I know can be a very good defender jamran's one of those dudes I know he has a thin frame so that they kind of hurts him guarding anybody outside of like other point guards But he because of his quickness his quick hands his quick feet He could be a plus defender and he just doesn't show that on a night and night out basis today He did that so it's very very great. Um, but on the other side, uh, minnesota just was not ready Listen carlton towns played 27 minutes. He had 15 points But if but man this is just another bad game for him and I know fouls are gonna be a thing Carly towns is one of the most foul prone players in the NBA But bro, it's it's not the fact that you get fouls car. It's how you get them or car anthony Sorry, it's car car anthony's his first night. It's how you get those fouls. You know what I'm saying It's just I'm gonna show you he had five fouls today Remember that he's a foul trouble because that he couldn't get a groove the team could get a groove I would need de angelo russo in a game like this Basically, like we saw in the game when he fouled out of in the playing Um, if carly towns could be in foul trouble We need de angelo russo to step things up and he did that to play in today He didn't do that and then we even got an anthony outwards his worst game in the last whatever Anyway, I'm gonna show you some of the plays where this man fouled and and boy You were like, bro, this is the reason why we had to sit you because you couldn't think to yourself Don't do this. Um, this is the first play of the game actually Um, little little pick from steven adams here a little double pick. Why did you stick your your leg out right there? This is what I mean It's the first one in the game So it's not that big of a deal But then it turns into a big deal because now you got to play the rest of this corridor With a little on your shoulder and you didn't do that because you picked up the second foul. Why put Why did you just put your foot out there like that? What defense is this in this game? Um, he did injure jamaran But luckily for everybody in the world jamaran came back and he was okay And it was something similar to this where it was actually he was on the offensive side of the ball And he's he put his leg out there for a screen Um, and now people on twitter were were debating the efficacy is if that's the word of this said screen Um, and in this play he did something very similar. I don't think cat is a dirty player He's trying to injure jamaran so their chances of winning the series goes up I just think bro be doing stuff and not really thinking about what he's doing and think about the consequences And in this case the consequences that you have to sit on your butt While your team needs you to play in a playoff game, but this is the one that really blew my mind Um close game still yoni down by eight in the first half. That's that's very winnable still D'Angelo russell is going to give up the ball to carthony towns He has a first of all, he won't even expect in his past. He was looking at somebody in the crowd I don't know what he was looking at but you can tell that he won't expect. Look at the little jump he get He gets it to the shooting motion pretty pretty easily pretty early It's one of the greatest three-point shooters in the league and one of the if not the best three-point shooting center of all time Right? That's enough space. That's enough space to shoot a normal jump shot. What does carthony towns do? He shoots it and sticks his leg out Why did you just do that? Why did you just do that? I just That's what I mean and then he argues it. That's not a normal shooting motion We've seen you shoot a million jump shots this season. You do not be sticking your leg out like that That's a good call. Just that those were two bonehead fouls and when you have five of them And I think that was his third in the first half. So it's it's not it's not smart It's not smart car. We got to be better. Um, and now I'm getting notifications about chris paul and scott foster Because now chris paul has has lost 12 straight gate playoff games where scott foster has been your fishy officiate official God, he's been officiating it. Is that suspicious to you? You let me know I don't I don't really know again. I'm not a guy that really talks about officiating. Um, But that that is a crazy either Either something going on and that's the one of the wildest coincidences of all time I guess it I gotta go watch that end of that pelicans game because I gotta I gotta watch the brandon ingram master class Let me look at this box score one time brandon ingram with 37 My god bi and he had only 13 points. I'm sorry. He had 11 points at halftime I gotta go watch them brandon ingram's possessions at the very minimum. I need brandon ingram's possessions ASAP Hey, man, let me know what you think about these games today. Um, I'll be back tomorrow We got a good slate the bulls are on tnt actually actually y'all Um, there is a tweet that I saw that was saying that that bulls Bucks game from last week or a couple days ago was like one of the most watched nazi televised basketball games in years Bulls basketball in the playoffs. It's all I'm saying. It's good for basketball. It's all I'm saying, baby Whether we get swept or winning the series. It's it's good for basketball